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Cuban doctors recommended for Nobel Prize in recognition of coronavirus efforts

News from Cuba | Thursday, 30 April 2020

CUBA’S medical mission has been recommended for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its efforts in the fight against the global Covid-19 pandemic. French solidarity organisation Cuba Linda has called for the award to be given to the Cuban Henry Reeve Medical Brigade which has deployed health workers to ... read more

Lift Cuba embargo or risk many lives lost to COVID-19, UN rights experts warn US

News from Cuba | Thursday, 30 April 2020

The United States must urgently lift its blockade on Cuba to save lives amid the expanding COVID-19 crisis, UN human rights experts stressed on Thursday, emphasizing that the more than six-decades-old sanctions are impeding the supply of medicine, medical equipment, food and other goods essential to surviving the pandemic. The joint ... read more

Cuba is Ready to Aid the U.S. in its Fight Against COVID-19.

News from Cuba | Thursday, 30 April 2020

Despite Trump’s sanctions, Cuba advocates international solidarity as the only way to overcome this pandemic. It is hardly surprising that the Trump Administration walked back from one of Obama’s signature foreign policy moves. Donald Trump has worked to undo relations between the United States and Cuba, as he has done to other ... read more

Interferon's Effectiveness Against COVID-19 Confirmed

News from Cuba | Wednesday, 29 April 2020

Cuban scientific authorities confirmed in April that the use of Interferon to treat COVID-19 patients was indeed effective.Eulogio Pimentel Vazquez, President of the Cuban Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), affirmed that the Interferon application complies with Cuban Health Ministry (Minsap) protocols. Pimentel stated that it is part of ... read more

US Prevents Cuba From Acquiring Pharmaceutical Raw Materials

News from Cuba | Wednesday, 29 April 2020

The pharmaceutical business group FarmaCuba director Neyra Muguercia reported in April that the U.S. blockade prevents her country from acquiring raw materials for the production of drugs in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. "The U.S. actions against Cuba are increasingly aggressive. They pursue all of our operations. Many times we ... read more

Cuba cannot get Swiss respirators due to US Inhuman Blockade

News from Cuba | Wednesday, 29 April 2020

Journalist Laura Hunter published an article in the Swiss newspaper Le Courrier denouncing that the companies IMT Medical AG and Acutronic Medical Systems AG were ordered not to sell high-tech respirators to Cuba. Claiming that they do not wish to subvert the U.S. unilateral sanctions, those companies, which were acquired by ... read more

Biden Says He Would Restore Relations With Cuba If Elected

News from Cuba | Wednesday, 29 April 2020

Biden said he would engage with Cuba but still sanction its government for backing the President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro. United States presidential candidate for the Democratic Party and former Vice President Joe Biden said Monday he would go back to former President Barack Obama’s policies toward Cuba if he wins ... read more

Cuba’s Unique Model of Medical Internationalism

News from Cuba | Tuesday, 28 April 2020

Cuba Standard (CS): What is the Henry Reeve Brigade? John Kirk (JK): The Henry Reeve Brigade was formed in 2005. Responding to the massive problems in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Cuba offered 1,400 medical personnel and 32 tons of medicine to help in New Orleans, which was refused by the ... read more

Emergency appeal for Cuba raises over £20,000 in first few days

Campaign News | Monday, 27 April 2020

There has been an amazing response to the Cuba Solidarity Campaign’s Emergency COVID-19 Appeal for Cuba. Over £20,000 has been donated in the first few days of the appeal by over 500 donors. The money is being sent to Cuba to be used by the Ministry of Health as part of ... read more

Jude speaking at a CSC Annual General Meeting

In memory of Jude Woodward

Campaign News | Monday, 27 April 2020

On behalf of the Executive Committee of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign and all our members and affiliates in the UK, we would like to offer our deepest sympathy to Jude’s family, colleagues and friends. Jude was a wonderful friend to the people of Cuba. She was a long standing member of ... read more

Cuba Develops First COVID-19 Tracking App

News from Cuba | Monday, 27 April 2020

"We send information provided by the population to health authorities. Then, medical workers visit people reporting symptoms and make decisions about it. That is the way it works," Alain Pieria, leader of the project, told Xinhua. Yosvel Falero is one of the developers of the first Cuban COVID-19 tracking app ... read more

Cuban Doctors Head to South Africa to Help Fight COVID-19

News from Cuba | Sunday, 26 April 2020

The group includes family physicians, epidemiologists, biostatists, health technology engineers, and biotechnology experts, among others. A new Cuban medical brigade is scheduled to arrive in South Africa on Sunday to join another group of Cuban colleagues, who are already working in the African country to reinforce the fight against the ... read more

New Cuban Medical Aid Brigade Arrives in St. Lucia

News from Cuba | Thursday, 23 April 2020

The Henry Reeve brigade members are assisting at various health institutions across the country. Cuba’s medical brigade arrived in Saint Lucia to assist COVID-19 patients and prevent the virus from spreading. Biomedical engineers, nurses, and doctors made up the new group that reinforces Cuban medical aid on the Caribbean island. The ... read more

Cuban drug to strengthen natural immunity in trial phase

News from Cuba | Tuesday, 21 April 2020

Given the threat posed by the new coronavirus, it is encouraging to learn that trials are underway in Cuba of a vaccine to strengthen innate immunity, to help reduce the risk of infectious agents entering the human body. The new drug, CIGB 2020 Immunopotentiator, is applied nasally or sublingually, and has ... read more

Argentina to Soon Welcome 200 Cuban Doctors for COVID-19 Fight

News from Cuba | Monday, 20 April 2020

The Cuban medical brigade is expected to arrive in May when the infection rate will likely hit its peak in Argentina. Argentina’s government confirmed Sunday night that a contingent of 202 Cuban doctors will arrive in the South American nation to help local health professionals with the spread of ... read more

Cuban doctors are the world’s heroes — their nation needs us now

News from Cuba | Sunday, 19 April 2020

"Now we have a chance to show solidarity with Cuba and help the Cuban people in their fight against coronavirus at home and abroad"- Len McCluskey, Unite general secretary There is a growing worldwide demand to end the US blockade of Cuba to help the international battle against the coronavirus pandemic. Politicians, ... read more

Cuba Calls for International Cooperation to Combat COVID-19

News from Cuba | Thursday, 16 April 2020

The Cuban Foreign Ministry issued a letter this week that called on the international community to come together to combat the COVID-19 outbreak. The impact of COVID19 can already be measured and will be assessed in the future by the striking numbers of people infected, the unacceptable numbers of deaths, ... read more

COMUNICADO DE PRENSA: parlamentarios británicos piden que se suspenda el bloqueo estadounidense durante la pandemia de coronavirus

Campaign News | Wednesday, 15 April 2020

Cincuenta y uno miembros británicos del parlamento han escrito a Dominic Raab, Secretario de Estado para Asuntos Exteriores y de la Mancomunidad, Primer Secretario y Primer Ministro en funciones para pedir que se suspenda temporalmente el bloqueo estadounidense de Cuba durante la pandemia de Covid-19. El diputado Grahame Morris, presidente del ... read more

PRESS RELEASE: British MPs call for US blockade to be suspended during coronavirus pandemic

Campaign News | Wednesday, 15 April 2020

Fifty one British members of parliament have written to Dominic Raab, the UK Foreign Secretary and acting Prime Minister to call for the US blockade of Cuba to be temporarily suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic. Grahame Morris MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cuba, coordinated the letter which asks ... read more

A man wearing a mask walks alongside a mural of Ernesto

Over 50 MPs call on government to oppose US blockade of Cuba

News from Cuba | Wednesday, 15 April 2020

MORE than 50 MPs are calling for the British government to intervene against the US blockade of Cuba. They want Britain to join the international outcry demanding suspension of the illegal blockade which is preventing delivery of medicines and equipment to combat the Covid-19 epidemic. Labour MP Grahame Morris, chairman of the ... read more

Coronavirus response: why Cuba is such an interesting case

News from Cuba | Wednesday, 15 April 2020

Some countries seem to be weathering the coronavirus pandemic better than others. One country that moved rapidly to deal with the emerging threat was Cuba. Cuba has several advantages over many states, including free universal healthcare, the world’s highest ratio of doctors to population, and positive health indicators, such as high ... read more

The Cuban medical brigade’s arrival in Turin. Photo: Heidy Villuendas

Cuba shares what it has

News from Cuba | Tuesday, 14 April 2020

Another Cuban medical brigade has arrived in Italy, this time in Turin, with 21 doctors, 16 nurses and a logistics coordinator, to save lives without asking anything in return, because solidarity has no price. “We share medical care, life, with other peoples,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla tweeted yesterday, recognizing ... read more

U.S. company buys ventilator supplier and cancels shipments to Cuba citing blockade

News from Cuba | Monday, 13 April 2020

Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. While Cuban medical collaboration is extended around the world to help contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the insane blockade imposed by the United States on our country, has just ... read more

Cuban-trained Doctor Helps Mobilize Pandemic Response in Her South Bronx Community

News from Cuba | Saturday, 11 April 2020

Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. The coronavirus pandemic has overwhelmed the U.S. healthcare system and exposed its deep structural weaknesses, nowhere more so than New York City. So what would a healthcare system ... read more

13,000 people from 126 different countries sign open letter calling for the end of the US blockade of Cuba.

Campaign News | Thursday, 9 April 2020

The Cuba Solidarity Campaign’s open letter calling for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad has now been signed by over 13,000 people from 126 different countries around the world. Reports from numerous news outlets from around the Caribbean and Latin America ... read more

Contribution from China to support Cuban fight against COVID-19

News from Cuba | Wednesday, 8 April 2020

Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez confirms arrival of donation from the People's Republic of China, to contribute to our battle against the new coronavirus. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez ... read more

Buses escorted by police transport carry holidaymakers to an airport near Havana

UK thanks Cuba for ‘great gesture of solidarity’ in rescuing passengers from coronavirus cruise ship

News from Cuba | Tuesday, 7 April 2020

Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. Britain has thanked Cuban rescue workers for a “great gesture of solidarity” in helping the stranded passengers of a cruise ship struck by coronavirus. In a glowing letter, the ... read more

Inspirational internationalism

News from Cuba | Sunday, 5 April 2020

As the world fights an international battle against the coronavirus pandemic, Cuba has once again proved itself a paragon of internationalism and solidarity. Not only is the island is combating the virus at home with 233 confirmed cases, six deaths and more than 3,000 patients under observation as of 2 April; ... read more

Ayude a Cuba a luchar contra COVID-19 y contra el bloqueo de los Estados Unidos

Campaign News | Sunday, 5 April 2020

Firme nuestra carta abierta aquí Por favor, firme nuestra carta abierta pidiendo que se levante el bloqueo de los Estados Unidos para ayudar a Cuba a combatir el coronavirus en el país y en el extranjero. Cuba ha mostrado solidaridad internacional con Gran Bretaña y otros países durante esta pandemia global. Ahora es ... read more

32 British MPs sign Open Letter calling on UK Government to take action on US blockade of Cuba

Campaign News | Friday, 3 April 2020

Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. At the time of writing this article, 32 members of parliament, across various parties in the UK, have now signed an open letter asking for the US blockade ... read more

US blocks medical aid to Cuba in show of ‘wild west brutality’

News from Cuba | Friday, 3 April 2020

CUBA has blasted the continuing US economic blockade warning of a “violation of human rights” after a shipment of vital medical aid from China was stopped from reaching the country on Tuesday. Washington was accused of acting with “Wild West brutality,” using the Covid-19 outbreak as an opportunity to “strangle the ... read more

‘Criminal blockade’: Cuba outraged as delivery of Covid-19 aid from Alibaba chief aborted ‘at the last minute’ due to US sanctions

News from Cuba | Thursday, 2 April 2020

Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. Cuba has slammed the US’ “criminal blockade” of the country after the embargo stood in the way of the delivery of Covid-19 test kits and ventilators donated by ... read more

Prensa, 01/04/2020 - MILES DE PERSONAS AGRADECEN A CUBA POR SU INTERNACIONALISMO EN LA LUCHA CONTRA EL CORONAVIRUS Y EXIGEN EL FIN DEL BLOQUEO DE ESTADOS UNIDOS.

Campaign News | Wednesday, 1 April 2020

Prensa, 01/04/2020 MILES DE PERSONAS AGRADECEN A CUBA POR SU INTERNACIONALISMO EN LA LUCHA CONTRA EL CORONAVIRUS Y EXIGEN EL FIN DEL BLOQUEO DE ESTADOS UNIDOS. Casi 7000 personas de más de 80 países ya han firmado una carta abierta internacional, y dejaron mensajes maravillosos para agradecer a Cuba por sus esfuerzos ... read more